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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Sew Mama Sew's Giveaway Day

Welcome! Merry Christmas and happy whatever holiday you celebrate. It's Christmas at my house so let's kick the season off with some giving.

Before I do the giveaway I want to say thanks to the over 50 quilters who responded to my call for help yesterday and no one, (a tribute to how nice you all are) said "what the heck were you thinking putting that layout together?" which was what I was saying to myself. What Regi said about all of us is so true, "I would almost guarantee that each of them would see something a bit different about the quilt and have a different favorite part or a different way to “fix” it."I appreciate all of you who took the time out of your day to help. Michaela actually drew a plan, scanned it and sent it, Charlie sent a picture and is thinking about it at work today and I had loads of emails back and forth from several of you. Kinda shows how much we all love quilting.

I have tried many options and I'm still working on it, but now I have so many more ideas...many of your suggestions spurred other ideas of my own. I think I may have to put all your names on the label. So, for all of you I'm having our own little private giveaway. I put all your names in a hat and I'll draw a winner on Saturday for something just for you. I would draw right now, but I have to make something!

And now to the real purpose of this post, Giveaway Day! I'm giving away a little Santa's village quilt. The winner will receive their choice of one of these 3 quilts. I hope to have them finished by Saturday, so that's when the giveaway will end. I'll post the winner at noon, central time.

Here's the deal. I love Christmas and I love to decorate. I've gotten the boxes out of the basement and I've started. Your task is to guess how many Christmas trees will I use to decorate my house. The trees have to be 3 dimensional and ornaments don't count. Everything else is fair game. If more than one person guesses the correct number, the first commenter with the correct guess will win their choice. (Who knows, maybe we could have a few more winners, maybe some fabric? So, guess away! Have fun!EDITED TO ADD: A few have emailed and asked do they have to be live trees...nope...only 3 dimensional and international folks...of course you are welcome! I've put together some (actually 6) 1 yard fabric bundles(2 prints from the Kansas City Star history prints and a coordinating solid) to give away too, so don't give up! Let's keep having holiday fun!!!!

ok. How many trees. Right...inside and out? Hmm... I'm going for 8. In fact, if you weren't going to have 8 you should now just choose 8, 8's a good number. Keep it at that, OK? ;D(can you tell I am really desperate for that quilt!!!)

Fun! My initial guess was going to be 6, but I see a number of people already guessed that. I'm going to say 9 instead. I don't think that's been guessed yet! Love your little quilts - they're so cute!

Totally wild guess, 12 trees! Glad you had so much fun with everyone's responses. I love it when bloggers post their layouts and ask for ideas. It's so much fun, and I learn so much from thinking about it and from reading everyone else's responses. How much less fun before the Blogosphere arrived!

I'm going big on this one- 23 trees. Why so many? Because you could have a little village full of trees or some other adorable decoration that I'm going to drool over later when I read your blog and you put up the photos of all the trees.

How manytrees......hmmmmm....guess I will pick my lucky number of 8. That sounds like too many, but that is what I am sticking to.

Glad that you had so many suggestions on the quilt. It was such fun to read the different comments and see what others would do. Blog quilting is certainly fun. Does this mean it will be a traveling quilt that we all get to have for a period of time??? Now, that would be a good idea.

Oh these are so so so darling! I love the one best with the stars. How sweet. I didn't realize it was giveaway day or I'd have done something too. Well now, trees, hmmm I guess 8. But someone already guessed that!! Dangit. I'll say something outrageous like 20.

It feels a little like the Price is Right guessing how many trees. I'll say 34, since you love Christmas, and really...trees can add up. I love the little houses! On a side note, I thought about the red quilt all day yesterday, but the only thing I could really think of was to change the red square with something more white than red, that might soften it a bit, becuase, really...I liked the layout. Good luck with that!

I can't get over how wonderful your little quilts are! The houses and trees...so precious. I've been so busy lately and have gotten behind on your wonderful blog. Time to catch up! Oh, and I'm guessing... 10, just for kicks. x

I'm not sure how big your house is -- but I guess they could be small trees too. I'm going to guess something crazy. Say 28 trees (I was initially going to guess 53, but I thought that might be too much). The quilts look lovely.

Okay, I am going to guess a ridiculous number, but its the number that first popped into my head... 72! You said "no ornaments", but you did not say "no decorations", and I am imagining lots of little tree decorations dotting tiny villages... yes, I am probably way out of the ballpark, but I'm sticking to my number!

I am going to guess 11 trees. Do you have one of those great ceramic ones with the plastic bulbs and the light inside it to cause them all to glow? Trying to find a nice way to get my grandma to send me hers. LOL! I remember pulling the bulbs out and rearranging them on visits to her house at Christmas.

Hi Jacquie, just going down the SMS list, it's taking all day, but it's lots of fun! Miss K is home sick, so I'm not going anywhere anyway. Even if I picked a number of trees, I'm sure someone has already picked it before me. But here goes...26. (that's a lot of trees!) I love the little quilt with the stars in the sky. (how fun to find out I'm included in your other fun drawing!). Have a great day!

I'm guessing 7. BTW, I think your red quilt is coming along nicely. I checked it out yesterday, but didn't have anything better to add to what was already said! That is awesome that people sent you sketches! I can't wait to see the end result.

I am really late in the guessing (silly work getting in the way of blog reading) but my guess would be 8! I am thinking foyer, dining room, living room, den, kitchen, and one in three bed rooms. I love, love, love these little quilts! I

I'm such a fan of your Christmas houses! what a beautiful and thoughtful giveaway gift! thank you so much for this giveaway opportunity!oh your redwork quilt is going to be so lovely!! I love how the fans give an illusion of circles ~ so much motion for the eyes to look around!I love Christmas decorating too! I have a small studio apartment so I'm limited to one pine tree and a smattering of smaller tree decorations around shelves and tables. So I have around 15 trees, and I guess that you have at least 35 trees you're decorating your house with!Happy Holidays, Jacquie!

hmm, I'll have to say 33? Yep, that's it (I hope!). I love the way your quilt is coming together! I'm sure however you end up putting it together will be beautiful Jacquie. The red and white (or is it cream) look great together! Oh, one thing I thought of when I saw the latest photo was to shift the blocks of 4 around so the diagonal square blocks are all next to each other in each other in the quilt? Or maybe this wouldn't work since you have 3 sets instead of 4 across. I'm probably just confusing the matter. Don't mind me!

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